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Diamon D Saddle Shop – Ft. Pierre

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/17Apr23-Dave-Dahl-Diamon-D-Saddle-Shop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Dave Dahl turns on the cowboy channel to watch a rodeo, there’s a good chance he’s going to see…

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Do you know Dave Dahl?  Lots of Cowboys Do.

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/14Apr23-Dave-Dahl-Diamon-D-Saddle-Shop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a business begins without you realizing you were beginning a business.  That is perhaps the case for Dave Dahl. …

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Must You Change with the Times?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/13Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Successful businesses have to change with the times.  Or do they?  In some ways, this store is doing the same…

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The Dakota Emporium

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/12Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small downtown area of Ft. Pierre, South Dakota and you’ll find a place called the…

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Al’s Great Pies

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/25Jan23-Als-Oasis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve driven across interstate 90 in South Dakota you know you’ll see plenty of signs for Wall Drug, an…

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Al’s Oasis

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/24Jan23-Als-Oasis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An oasis is often thought to be a lush, fertile spot in the middle of a desert.  The oasis I’ll…

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Taking Advantage of the Mountain Time Zone

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/26Sep22-Fort-Pierre-Karl-Fisher-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For communities near a time zone, it can sometimes be confusing which time one is using when hosting an event. …

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Historic Ties to Ft. Pierre, South Dakota

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/23Sep22-Ft-Pierre-Karl-Fisher-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small historic district in Ft. Pierre, SD and you’ll find some buildings with quite a…

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KORN Radio Celebrates 75 Years

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jul22-KORN-Radio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know your station has hit the big time when it’s call letters are used for a fictional radio station…

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Corny Call Letters

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/05Jul22-KORN-Radio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The radio business has lots of four-letter words.  The words I’m talking about are the four call letters by which…

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Two Different Burial Spot Claims

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/27Jul20-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…

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Where the Buffalo Roam

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/26Jun20-Custer-State-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place wnere the buffalo roam and herds of people come to watch them.  I’ll take you to a…

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A Road to Make You Drive Slowly

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/25Jun20-Custer-State-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The purpose of a new road is usually to get people from one point to another more quickly and safely. …

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South Dakota’s First State Park

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/24Jun20-Custer-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is South Dakota’s first state park but when it was established over a century ago one man was worried…

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A Museum with Big Artifacts

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/16Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with some of the biggest artifacts you’ll find and you can walk right up to just about…

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Higher and Faster than a Plane

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/15Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of an Air Force base you of course think of air planes.  But at this base, the…

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The Pink Castle

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/28Jun19-Pickler-Mansion-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the “Pink Castle.”  You’d be surprised how many notable figures passed through these halls and the importance…

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Putting Stakes in the Ground

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/27Jun19-Pickler-Mansion-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They built their home so far from civilization, they put stakes in the ground so they could find their way…

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The Rapid City Flood of 1972

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/16May19-Rapid-City-Flood.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today it is a peaceful park, with plenty of green open spaces.  Turn back to the clock to the early…

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The Safety of Early Astronauts

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/15May19-Rapid-City-Stratosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine current day astronauts heading down to the local high school to get a couple of football helmets to wear…

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